Officials said on Saturday that a Syrian refugee was previously known to the police in the eastern state of East State Saxony for criminal offenses on suspicion of stabbing a Spanish tourist in the Holcost Memorial in Berlin.
According to Saxony’s internal ministry, the 19-year-old is not a repeated or serious criminal, where previous crimes were committed.
The person entered the country in 2023 and lived in Saxony since then, the ministry said on Saturday.
He was known to the police for “simple general criminal offenses”, in which no “state security relations” said, meaning that there was no political reference to events.
According to the Geneva Convention on the refugees, the person was recognized by the federal office for migration and refugees. it was
According to DPA information, the country was not obliged to leave and was living in a shared residence in Leapzig.
The man is suspected of attacking Spaniel from behind on Friday evening with a knife and was seriously injured in the neck. He was arrested in Berlin, a few hours after the incident.
Police and firefighters protect the Holocost Memorial in Berlin, where a person is seriously injured in a stabbing incident. Carssteen Koall/DPA
